An introduction to the Small Web, alternatives to Google products and less-predatory social medias.

The current internet sucks. “Social" media is no more than an advertising platform, Google is collecting literal gigabytes of information on you, Facebook has a profile on you whether you like it or not. Luckily there are a lot of very smart people who also think it sucks, and want to change it. By depriving big companies of their products - because don’t kid yourself, you are the product - we can help make the internet a fun place to be again!


Alternatives to Google

  • nomoregoogle.com - a large list of alternatives to Google services (not all are perfect but better than Google at least)
  • proton.me/mail - free email with end-to-end encryption (the company cannot access your email content even if subpoena'd)
  • libreoffice.org - free, open-source OpenOffice or Google Docs alternative
  • www.mozilla.org - browser that doesn't track you + blocks other trackers
  • curlie.org - massive collection of useful links ordered by category maintained by volunteers
  • duckduckgo.com - search engine that doesn't track you

    Alternative social medias

  • www.imood.com and status.cafe - twitter alternatives (post + receive "status updates")
  • spacehey.com - new myspace
  • multiverse.plus - creative blogging/scrapbooking tool, super fun!!!! kind of similar to tumblr
  • matrix.org - similar to discord but decentralised + end2end encrypted

    • Many of these "social medias" require you to use an RSS/Atom reader to subscribe to other feeds. My personal recommendation is protopage:

  • www.protopage.com

    • Creating your own space on the internet

  • neocities.org - free website hosting w/ no ads or watermarks
  • zonelets.net - simple tool to make a blog on a html site
  • www.khanacademy.org - coding tutorial, took me less than 2 hours very useful
  • www.w3schools.com - another tutorial/reference (more in depth but less tutorial-y)

    • This doesn’t fit into any of the other categories, but:

  • news.ycombinator.com - collection of interesting computerish articles and very civil + nice forum (don't be put off by the name)

    • Interesting/cool personal websites

  • sadgrl.online - why does this matter?
  • isaacfish.neocities.org - further reading + the author’s personal link collection and website
  • wmbu.net cinni.net redstring.neocities.org 44nifty.com - some of my favourite sites

    • Feel free to contact me if you're interested in learning more / need any help!